Iss Jungle Se Mujhe Bachao
Iss Jungle Se Mujhe Bachao premiered on 13 July 2009 on Sony Entertainment Television (India). It was the first and only series of reality show Iss Jungle Se Mujhe Bachao based on British reality game show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.[1] The winner of the show was Mona Wasu, who earned prize money of 10 million INR. The show is set to return for a second season in 2021 in English to allow for more international celebrities.[2]
| Iss Jungle Se Mujhe Bachao | |
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 A promotional logo image of "Iss Jungle Se Mujhe Bachao". | |
| Genre | Reality television |
| Created by | ITV |
| Based on | I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language(s) | Hindi/English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 40 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Silverback (Sweden) Miditech (India) |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | Sony Entertainment Television (India) |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV) |
| Original release | 13 July – 4 September 2009 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Concept
The show is licensed from ITV's format, I'm a Celebrity...Get Me out of Here!. The basic concept is the same, where a group of celebrities have to survive in a jungle camp without any amenities, and must compete with each other to stay on in the show.
Every contestant gets a handful of rice and some soybean or lentils for food every three days, which is clearly not enough for survival. Therefore, they must participate in various physically challenging contests and win "food credits" for themselves and their team members. Each day, the team must nominate one participant to play in the day's contest and be the bread-winner for that day.
At the end of every week, the contestant with the fewest public votes and the contestant with the most elimination nominations from the participants face off in an elimination task called the "Maha Jungle Challenge". The winner of this challenge gets to stay back while the loser is eliminated from the game.
The audience can vote for their favorite participants via phone calls or SMS.
Series overview
| Season | Host(s) | Launch date | Finale date | Days | Celebrities | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Mini Mathur and Yudhishthir Urs | 13 July 2009 | 4 September 2009 | 54 | 15 | Mona Wasu[3] |
Season 1
| Iss Jungle Se Mujhe Bachao | |
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| Season 1 | |
| Presented by | Mini Mathur and Yudhishthir Urs |
| No. of days | 54 |
| No. of contestants | 15 |
| Winner | Mona Wasu |
| Runner-up | Chetan Hansraj |
| Location | Taman Negara, Malaysia |
| Country of origin | India |
| No. of episodes | 40 |
| Release | |
| Original network | Sony Entertainment Television |
| Original release | 2009 |
Ten Indian celebrities were chosen to participate in the only season. They were flown to Taman Negara in the rain-forests of Malaysia, where they had to stay in the jungle in an outdoor camp with little or no luxury amenities. Every contestant was allowed to carry any two luxury items of their choice, which they had to specify before the contest began. The ten celebrities were often divided into different sub-groups and made to compete among themselves every week.
Celebrities
Some more celebrities were introduced in later episodes as the original celebrities started getting eliminated.
The 10 original contestants were:
- Mona Wasu (winner) – Indian television actress.
- Chetan Hansraj (1st runner up) – Indian television actor.
- Anaida (2nd runner up) – 90's Pop icon
- Akashdeep Saigal – Indian Television actor.
- Aman Verma – Indian film and television actor
- Marc Robinson – Fashion director and grooming expert
- Shweta Tiwari (Quit) – Television actress and reality TV star
- Ishq Bector – Singer
- Palak Johal – Roadies fame
- Fiza Mohammad – Former wife of politician Chander Mohan.
The 5 wildcards were:
- Negar Khan – Model
- Jay Bhanushali – Indian television and film actor
- Mika Singh – Popular singer
- Chitrashi Rawat – Indian actress
- Kashmira Shah – Reality TV star and actress
Elimination table
Each week the audience votes to save their favourite celebrity to stay in the jungle. The celebrities with the lowest votes face each other off in the "Maha Jungle Challenge" after which the loser is evicted from the jungle.
| Contestants | No. 1 | No. 2 | No. 3 | No. 4 | No. 5 | No. 6 | No. 7 | No. 8 | No. 9 | No. 10 | Finale | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mona | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Safe | Immune | Winner | |||
| Chetan | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Saved | Runner-up | |||
| Anaida | Bottom two | Bottom two | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Evicted (Day 54) | |||
| Akashdeep | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Bottom two | Evicted (Day 52) | |||
| Jay | Not in the Jungle (Entered, Day 22) |
Safe | Bottom two | Bottom two | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Evicted (Day 50) | ||||||
| Aman | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Evicted (Day 47) | |||||
| Kashmira | Not in the Jungle (Entered, Day 37) |
Safe | Safe | Withdrew (Day 46) | ||||||||||
| Marc | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Evicted (Day 44) | ||||||
| Chitrashi | Not in the Jungle (Entered, Day 22) |
Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Evicted (Day 40) | |||||||||
| Mika | Not in the Jungle (Entered, Day 22) |
Safe | Bottom two | Evicted (Day 33) | ||||||||||
| Negar | Not in the Jungle (Entered, Day 13) |
Safe | Bottom two | Evicted (Day 26) | ||||||||||
| Palak | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Evicted (Day 19) | ||||||||||
| Shweta | Safe | Safe | Withdrew (Day 13) | |||||||||||
| Fiza | Safe | Bottom two | Evicted (Day 12) | |||||||||||
| IshQ | Bottom two | Evicted (Day 5) | ||||||||||||
| Winning Team/Contestant | Blue Team | Yellow Team | Blue Team | Yellow Team | Marc | Akashh | Jay | Jay | Anaida | Mona | Mona | |||
| Survivor | Anaida | Anaida | Aman | Chetan | Jay | Jay | Anaida | Mona | Akashh | Anaida | ||||
| Face-off Challengers | IshQ Anaida |
Anaida Fiza |
Palak Aman |
Chetan Negar |
Mika Jay |
Jay Chitrashi |
Mark Anaida |
Mona Aman |
Akashh Jay |
Anaida Akashh |
Chetan | |||
| Evicted | IshQ | Fiza | Palak | Negar | Mika | Chitrashi | Mark | Aman | Jay | Akashdeep | Anaida | |||
| Withdrew | None | Shweta | None | Kashmira | None | |||||||||
- Red Team/Merged Team
- Yellow Team
- Blue Team
Season 2
Following the success of the UK, German and Australian versions of the franchise it was released in January 2020 that Sony Entertainment will reboot the Indian version. The series is set to return for fall 2021 and will focus on 12 Indian and international stars in English. Rumoured participants include: Indian Model and Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, east is east Director, Actress and Human Rights Campaigner, Anglo/South African, Leslee Udwin, Bollywood Actor and Producer, Ajay Patel and US Scriptwriter & Director and TV Personality, Rosetta D’Acampo. [4]
Highlights
- In the second week, 8 contestants out of 10 staged a walk out from the show as Akashdeep Saighal got bitten by bugs and worms while doing a task.[4] The two contestants who decided to stay back were, Palak Kaur Johal and Fiza Chand Mohammed.